In recent years, everyone may feel that the extreme weather of "once in a thousand years" and "once in a century" has become more and more frequent.
When global warming and polar glaciers and permafrost melt, will bacteria and viruses that are harmful to the human body be released?
If the Earth's temperature rises another 10 degrees and the icebergs of the Antarctic and Arctic melt, will humans disappear?
The changes in the earth are closely related to human behavior, so what can we, as people living on this beautiful blue planet, do?
With such feelings and confusion, I would like to introduce this "extraordinary" picture book that won the 2020 German Youth Literature Prize - "Seeing the World from the South Pole".
"Seeing the World from The South Pole"
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Age 6+
Author: [Czech] David Böhm
Translation: Tian Yu
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Antarctica, seemingly distant, is important to us on this side of the earth. Just as the book says, just as the South Pole affects the climate of the entire Earth, so does what happens on the other side of the Planet. For example, the Antarctic ocean is full of human garbage, and it takes 100 years for a mineral water bottle to decompose, which means that the ocean will be polluted for a long time.
A full page of diagrams is used in the book to explain to the children how long it takes for the garbage generated by people to decompose. We usually read the environmental awareness in front of the children countless times, and we have left a deep impression on the children's hearts with such a concise and clear but shocking appearance.
This book is also special in that it is not only an ordinary Antarctic popular science book, but also a perfect fit between natural science and humanistic speculative spirit. It not only tells the history of Antarctica, but also uses Antarctica as a reference object, allowing us to understand the whole world through comparison with it, opening up an unusual perspective on things and the angle of seeing the world for children. What is big? What is far? What is wild? What's new? What is important? And also tell the children, to protect the planet, what do we need to do?
A book that allows children to think, discover, and explore autonomously is much more interesting than simply introducing knowledge points.
For example, at the beginning, it is easy to arouse children's interest and thinking: in order to make us in the northern hemisphere feel better about the Antarctic, all the page numbers in the book are reversed!!!
And since the earth is round, where does the world begin and where does it end? Which side is "below"? What is on? What is next?
For example, when the book talks about the icebergs in Antarctica, 90% of the icebergs are located underwater, and what we can see is only the tip of the iceberg. So the author asks the question: the world as we see it is actually only one-tenth of it. For the rest, can we only rely on "speculation"? If most of our speculations are wrong, then what do we do? The book also makes a kind reminder: "Everyone has different ideas about what we don't see." "At this time, we can ask children what they think and feel, or whether they have encountered similar situations in their lives." Provoke them to think, connect the book with the reader, drive the internalization of knowledge, and draw strength from reading.
As soon as "Looking at the World from Antarctica" was released, it was praised by the domestic publishing community as "the ceiling of popular science reading"! Its binding layout is ingenious, and no page of layout is repetitive. The 8-folio book is paired with a very international design of typography, so that every child can feel the "natural beauty" of Antarctica. The visual language of the book is varied and cleverly conceived, with hand-drawn drawings, cartoons, large spreads, maps, mind maps, and real photos, and each page is extremely delicate and refreshing.
Author David Broome created this book for the little ones
He went to Antarctica and spent two and a half years compiling and drawing, and the process of writing the book was also approved by authoritative research institutions such as the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Antarctic Research Center of Masaryk University
support.
The whole book creatively cuts into the two angles of philosophy and science, and then uses beautiful and easy language to express, the knowledge involves geography, science and technology, nature, society and other fields, the amount of information is large enough, and gives children a great space for thinking, the staying power is long, children can read again and again, often read and new. No wonder it won the 2020 German Prize for Youth Literature!!!
TIPS: Deutsches Youth Literature Prize,
It is the most authoritative and highest level children's book award in Germany.
The jury's evaluation of "The World from Antarctica" was:
This is an extraordinary popular science book.
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As an adult promoter, I can even say this: if an adult reads this book, he may feel a certain distance - because it is really a book written entirely for children, the tone of the book, the tone of the whole book, is the tone of dialogue with children, kind, gentle, playful, full of all kinds of eagerness and small question marks, and also invokes a very rich visual expression to explain all aspects of Antarctica to children. Fully mobilize the children's enthusiasm for reading, let their little eyeballs turn up and their little heads move rapidly!
In order to explain the geological structure of the Antarctic continent to the children, the author also specially built a continental model, simulating the sun with photographic lights, simulating various geological layers with glass, styrofoam, and cardboard, and meticulously placed penguins with a humble and somewhat abstract penguin.
When the penguins became the protagonists of the introduction, the author asked his friends to specially make various kinds of penguin puppets, which were very cute and showed their appearance characteristics without any surprise. These pages, children will definitely read many times a day!!!
(Take this opportunity to sell a cute crooked head,
Look at the world from another angle, move the cervical spine ~~)
The book also spends a lot of time, in the form of charts, hand-drawn, mind maps and other various forms, detailed recording of the whole process of human exploration of Antarctica in the past five hundred years. Children reading it can feel the courage, enthusiasm and will of human beings to explore the unknown, and this positive energy will also positively affect them, facing the unknown world, facing the future full of possibilities, always with pioneering enthusiasm and optimistic courage to move forward!
(Re-active cervical spine?) ）
Antarctica, the last continent to be reached by humans, the last "paradise" at the southernmost tip of the earth. This is a cold wonderland at the end of the world, and it may also be the last refuge of the earth... The ancients said, read thousands of books, travel thousands of miles, take this book home, invite it and children, embark on an adventure to discover The Antarctic, explore the Antarctic, and protect the earth!
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Dedicated to all who care about the earth and love life,
Kids eager to explore and adventure!
Suitable for reading: 6 years old + (preschoolers can read together)
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